WestJet

Clive Beddoe is a founding shareholder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of WestJet Airlines. As a pilot himself, it was his interest in aircraft that helped form WestJet. Clive first started flying gliders at Epsom College in England during his teenage years. While talking to a friend one... day, he decided to move to Canada on a whim to start a job at a Real Estate Development Company, further on creating his own commercial development company called Hanover Management, a named based on Hanover Square, London a location where he once worked. He also owns Western Concord Manufacturing a plastic manufacturing company based out of Delta, British Columbia. WestJet Airlines, founded in 1996, is publicly traded in the TSX and is Canada's leading low fare airline now serving most major Canadian cities, with scheduled service to many sun destinations in the United States of America, as well as Nassau, Bahamas, Mexico and the Caribbean 71 destinations in all. Growing the company from 3 planes to nearly 100 next generation Boeing 737 and building the company to an annual revenue of well over 2 billion in 2010.
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